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fourth vehicles carrying three civil guards each. The vehicle left the factory at 7:30 am and at approximately 8:15 am, had to slow down at a part of the road which consisted of numerous bends. The ETA members had chosen a spot near a small hill, where they were hidden from view by dense vegetation. After allowing the vehicle carrying the factory workers to pass, ETA launched a grenade at the second vehicle, causing it to be stuck in a layby and then attacked the civil guard's vehicles with assault rifles, machine guns and grenades, firing over 100 shots. In order to ensure that no civil guards survived, the ETA members approached the vehicles and threw a hand grenade into the first civil guard's vehicle. When they repeated this with the second vehicle, two ETA members, Gregorio
Olabarría Gorrotxategui Bengoa and Javier Argote, were killed as a result of injuries suffered when they failed to escape in time before the grenades exploded. One of these was subsequently found 6 kilometres away from the attack, having apparently been moved there by his comrades. At 8:45 am, a man had approached a bar near the scene and had asked in Basque for medical assistance.
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The attack occurred on a Friday morning. ETA had observed similar convoys from the factory and planned their ambush based on information that they had gathered. The convoy consisted of four vehicles, the first carrying technicians, the third mortar devices produced by the factory and the second and
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On 25 June 1982, five people, Francisco
Esquisavel, Angel Recalde, Jesús Trocaola, Juan Ramón Ibarlueca, Ana Guerenabarrena and María Isabel Mendiola appeared in court accused of having participated or cooperated in the attack. Esquisavel and Recalde were accused of direct participation while
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The drivers of the third vehicle, which had been trapped between the civil guard's vehicles, were allowed to go free and ordered to go down the hill by the ETA members, where they eventually reached a main road. The weapons in the third vehicle were seized by the ETA team.
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There were also disturbances at the funeral of the six civil guards. Protestors shouted insults at
Government ministers, who had to be protected by a police cordon. Members of the press and the PSOE were not allowed to attend the funerals, though members of the UCD and
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Trocaola was accused of having sheltered ETA fugitives who had taken part. Mendiola was accused of having driven a get away car for one of those involved in the attack while
Ibarlueca and Guerenabarrena were accused of having cleaned away blood stains from a car used.
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In 1999, the only outstanding case was settled. Jose Luis Ansola
Larranaga ("Peio the Elder") was acquitted of involvement in the attack on the basis of lack of evidence. The Chief Prosecutor, Eduardo Fungairiño, and the
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Having been alerted by a local resident who had heard the gunfire and explosions, the police arrived on the scene at 9:00 am and found a large quantity of grenades, 9 millimetre ammunition and guns of
Belgian origin.
385:. A total of six civil guards were killed, while two ETA members were killed by hand grenades that they had thrown. The attack was the deadliest of 1980, the year when ETA killed more people than any other.
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taking place one month later. The attack was condemned by the Basque
General Council, the forerunner of the modern Basque government, and most of the region's main parties like the
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attacking ETA violence. For this he was heckled by some of those attending the funeral who shouted slogans in support of the group such as "Gora ETA!"
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had alleged that Ansola had been the author of the operation and had requested 174 years in prison for him.
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During the funeral of one of the ETA members killed in the attack, Gregorio
Olabarría, the priest gave a
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Vivas a ETA en el funeral del terrorista muerto en el atentado de
Lequeitio, El Pais, 5 February 1980
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In 1984, Jaime
Rementería Beotegui was found guilty of participation in the attack, fined 60 million
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Bilbao: Tensión en los funerales de los seis guardias civiles, La Vanguardia, 3 February 1980, p14
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El etarra Peio el Viejo, libre tras ser absuelto por falta de pruebas, El Pais, 22 June 1999
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Juicio por el atentado de Ispáster, donde murieron 6 guardias civiles, El Pais, 26 June 1982
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On 13 July 1980, ETA attempted to repeat the tactics of the Ispaster attack with an
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ETA, una historia de muerte y destrucción, Diario Vasco, 23 March 2006
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The attack took place at a time when devolution of power to the
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which occurred on 1 February 1980 near the Basque town of
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Todas las vidas rotas, Diario de Burgos, 31 January 2010
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who were escorting workers and weapons from the nearby
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Seis guardias civiles mueren ametrallados en Vizcaya
528:Timeline: Eta campaign, BBC News, 8 September 2010
503:"ETA:Historia de 40 años de terrorismo, ABC, 2006"
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216:Assassination of Augusto Unceta Barrenechea
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211:Assassination of Juan María de Araluce
676:Terrorist incidents in Europe in 1980
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361:was a gun and grenade attack by the
471:Association of Victims of Terrorism
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271:Plaza República Dominicana bombing
38:Land Rover destroyed in the attack
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691:20th-century mass murder in Spain
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424:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
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373:. The targets were a convoy of
686:February 1980 events in Europe
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331:Madrid-Barajas Airport bombing
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261:Killing of Lasa and Zabala
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226:July 1979 Madrid bombings
206:Cafetería Rolando bombing
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420:Basque Nationalist Party
412:Basque autonomous region
365:separatist organisation
671:1980 disasters in Spain
565:, 2 February 1980, p5-6
666:1980 murders in Spain
141:Casualties and losses
449:were in attendance.
359:1980 Ispaster attack
311:1993 Madrid bombings
19:1980 Ispaster ambush
656:Mass murder in 1980
416:the first elections
414:was imminent, with
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321:2000 Madrid bombing
306:1992 Madrid bombing
286:Netherlands attacks
477:Subsequent attacks
346:Palma Nova bombing
231:Alonsotegi bombing
696:History of Biscay
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83:Belligerents
24:Part of the
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296:Vic bombing
241:Orio ambush
120:Civil Guard
74:ETA victory
650:Categories
489:References
389:The attack
406:Reactions
430:and the
426:(PSOE),
371:Ispaster
149:6 killed
146:2 killed
128:Strength
60:Ispaster
55:Location
463:pesetas
434:(UCD).
439:homily
383:Bilbao
363:Basque
71:Result
109:Spain
64:Spain
515:2011
357:The
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367:ETA
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